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Re:Superlite: A Faster Alternatie to Superpowers on Monday October 19, 2026 @01:08AM (#50148587)
may be needed with lower tier or older models. my experience with the newer models are that these actively hurt their performance and burn tokens needlessly. You still need an agents.md specific to your project but not broad skills anymore. Because the software development best practices seem to have been baked into them at post training time.
This guy is a legend. His whole series on building this along with other videos is worth watching on YouTube. It amazes me how some random guy simply drops a sub um manipulator diy on YouTube and disappears into the ether. No promotions nothing.
how does something like this pass code and design reviews. is this code written by ai (the buggy code). Not only was the key that signs the cookie inside the cookie it self but it's using pickle which even model weights are moved away from. I'm a little flabbergasted at the noob nature of this root cause.
A lot of this tracks but misses the variations in what the models in general are good for.
Re:Microsoft Says Windows May Need Up to 8 Hours to Update on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @02:48PM (#30168157)
We do get update notifications in many linux distros as well. I guess the difference is how aggressive the windows updates are. Its like having a gun to the head if at all there give a choice in the first place. The fact that windows is still kicking around with these shitty ux practices says how low the desktop or laptop market must mean to companies these days.
Re:Tesla to recall vehicles that may disobey stop signs on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @02:36PM (#30167954)
Not specific to tesla but I guess the answer is in your question. Most likely all the current self driving efforts across board will fail till we have smart roads. A road that can help a vehicle self drive will ensure the complexity of self driving is reduced. And of course that might mean these roads will have to be human driver, pedestrian free.
Re:Europe Is Losing Nuclear Power Just When It Needs Energy on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @11:04AM (#30164326)
How about something like an SLA for power?

Clearly, placing any country's energy security in the hands of ever changing climate (less winds and high cloud cover) or at the feet of dictators has to factor in some where.

Re:Man found guilty of ‘grossly offensive’ tweet on Monday January 31, 2022 @11:44PM (#30158716)
And hire who?

Its not like the job is very appealing in current environment. The risk of either dying on job or getting imprisoned due to domestic disturbance calls gone wrong is very high. Not to mention, a lot of cops not showing up situation seem to be in line with the demands of general public who instead want to mental health workers to show up for handling a variety of scenarios.

Re:Ask HN: At a peak of my dev career, I hate my life on Saturday January 29, 2022 @11:56PM (#30134170)
Very well put. Not just tall/short but physical beauty in general tends to push or pull people with it in a particular direction (be it career/friendships/relationships). To think of it in another way, they are as much trapped with it as the person with bad looks whether they want it or not.

For many good looking people, its a big problem when the short span of these once awesome physical attributes start to reach its eventual decline. They don't have any self confidence and self worth not tied to their looks. And from then on a its a life long fight to keep looking the same through cosmetics or surgery.

Science is ever changing. After trying this out my self, I can say with confidence that current state of myopic management with glasses will be deemed as quackery on par with drinking crude oil to cure diseases in past centuries.

Near work imposed in schools and wearing glasses constantly is the reason for current myopia epidemic as can be evidenced by low myopia rates in schools following western curriculum that is more holistic in nature.

Checkout endmyopia for similar alternative therapy to glasses.
Re:In Argentina, inflation is a way of life on Thursday January 27, 2022 @02:35PM (#30105185)
Its not a distribution. Its a dilution. The rich gets richer as they have most of their savings and capital in form that is not taxable and also set to rise with markets and real estate. The poor and middle class have much smaller percentage of income working for them and not usually have access to high growth opportunities.
Re:In Argentina, inflation is a way of life on Thursday January 27, 2022 @02:23PM (#30104951)
> A financial device called Overnight, were you would convert your brazilian currency (had many names) into USD at night and then convert it back to BR on the next day

Who eats the loss from the fluctuations in this case? Any idea how the providers used to hedge against the risk.

Re:Nvidia prepares to abandon $40B Arm bid on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @08:10AM (#30071359)
Wow that's an interesting read. So anyone who holds a rubber stamp of a company can steal the whole company? That's some screwed up legal system.
It's not a given that real estate has intrinsic value. Sure properties which are in high demand today will continue to do so tomorrow. But not all properties are like that. You can look at several foreclosed properties in 2008 bubble. Many continue to be in rundown state (both commercial and residential). Because the costs of renovation, taxes, utilities, insurances when included makes the property a losing proposition.
But then jury is out on whether there will ever be a bear market (or in other words will the central banks ever allow one). Also whether anything else (real estate, stocks or other assets) can survive it.
Re:Ask HN: Gmail account security on Monday January 24, 2022 @03:32AM (#30054873)
Could be that IP Address/ISP reputation is also a factor for the variation in results.
Re:Ask HN: Gmail account security on Sunday January 23, 2022 @11:40PM (#30053812)
Use private mode exclusively. You will start getting into the captcha hell in a day or two.
Re:Dude where's my coldstart? on Sunday January 23, 2022 @05:59AM (#30045265)
So this serverless solution has a watchdog process always running and mapping requests to the correct process? It that more like a server than serverless? Will the next optimisation be launching one thread per request? In which case we are back to square one (:
Re:WebAssembly: The New Kubernetes? on Friday January 21, 2022 @08:22AM (#30023116)
The ingress can be free with Nginx but not the inbound firewall rule that passes the traffic to Nginx. And 'coincidentally' it costs the same $ as using their load balancer which automatically has this rule applied.
Re:WebAssembly: The New Kubernetes? on Friday January 21, 2022 @04:05AM (#30020995)
More and more it appears that k8s is designed to extract maximum value from the tenants of the cloud companies.

You need to connect your cluster to public Internet? No problem that's $x for each load balancer (whether its needed or not).

Ohh you are feeling the whole thing feels like a blackbox and difficult to debug or observe? No problem that is $x for data dog.

Gcp is the worst when it comes to setting up k8s with preemptive nodes. Thought you could get away with preemptive nodes? Not so fast, we restart all the nodes together at end of 24 hours period so that your multi node cluster will have zero availability for 5 minutes everyday. Or jump through hoops to killing your own nodes periodically to keep them all restarting at the same time.

I'm not sure what value your harsh tone adds to your comment. Sharing experiences like this publicly benefits everyone. It obviously exposes blindspots in one's knowledge and it is expected that noone knows everything. That is the point of the. Comments functionality in HN. So that we can all share things that we know and absorb things we don't.

I personally enjoyed this article and learnt a few things from it. I learnt a few things from your comment too but it would have been better without all the harsh words.

Re:It takes $420k per year to run Lichess on Sunday January 16, 2022 @01:02PM (#29958258)
I guess that's a literal interpretation but the OP's comparison serves the same purpose. It's sad that he has an edit option where he can clarify/correct to phrase it differently if he chooses to but continues to have it stay the same.
Because its not easy to get fuel for nuclear reactors as there is an ever lasting cloud on India's nuclear status.

Existing reactors also run on partial capacity due to lack of fuel. What little is produced in the country has to be rationed between defence and electricity generation.

Re:Rust in 2022 on Wednesday January 12, 2022 @09:42AM (#29906864)
I continue to be surprised by this despite logging some good number of Rust hours. Cargo run and it just works as expected even with complicated data sharing code etc.

Of course most of the work gets done by the compiler safe guarding and guiding during development. People make noise about lifetimes etc but once you are ready to pay the penalty of Arc (and in most cases if you are using lifetimes you are already on the verge of using Arc). Same with using cloning as needed. End of the day, these incur a predictable and acceptable performance penalty than many other languages do while providing good safety.

Re:What NPM should do to stop a new colors attack on Tuesday January 11, 2022 @12:28AM (#29887937)
There should be a reputation score for new releases on npm with scores from beta users who are part of the community. Sounds similar to app store but more community controlled.

In general, there should be a risk assessment score on npm for each package sourced automatically from different criteria like how many maintainers are there in a project, ownership changes etc.

Also, making the new package available only to few % of random users would have limited the impact.

Overall this pull with complete trust is just asking for trouble.

And yeah, this developer needs to be committed to a facility for his own good (if this doesn't qualify him for that then I don't know what will).

The flags sound real and its lucky for you they are showing up early. I would suggest to talk to someone in the inside through your network (may be from another team). If that chat doesn't seem to go well, then definitely back off this offer and start interviewing again.
Wow that's insane. They should start with banning power hungry data centers whose whole purpose is to serve ads first.

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